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Montreal

by Ken Franckling
July 13, 2004

Several blocks from the fuss and hype of the headlining acts at the Montreal International Jazz Festival resides one of the festival's great developments through the years. Club Soda, a rather intimate shoebox of a room holding 550 people on three seating levels, is home to an early evening singers' series appropriately called “Voix du Monde" ...

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TD Canada Trust Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival 2004

by Jerry D'Souza
July 11, 2004

The 18th edition of the jazz festival rolled into Toronto on June 25 and stayed until July 4. It was as big as it ever was with over 1500 musicians and over 30 venues. There was one difference. Federal legislation smoked out du Maurier with a ban on sponsorship by tobacco companies. TD Canada Trust stepped ...

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Montreal Jazz Festival 2004 Notebook, Part 3-3

by Ken Franckling
July 11, 2004

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Haden winds down Invitation series Bassist Charlie Haden concluded his four-night “Invitation" series of concerts Friday night at Montreal's Monument-National featuring his Quartet West band with pianist Alan Broadbent, tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts and drummer Rodney Green. There was no doubt why Haden considers this unit his favorite ...

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Montreal Jazz Festival 2004 Notebook, Part 2-3

by Ken Franckling
July 10, 2004

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 World Music honors Buena Vista Social Club icon Ibrahim Ferrer was honored July 8 with the Montreal International Jazz Festival's first “Antonio Carlos Jobim Award" for world music excellence. It was the fourth significant lifetime achievement award the festival has created to mark its own milestone anniversaries. The ...

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Tierney Sutton Stuns at Montreal

by Ken Franckling
July 9, 2004

2004 is turning out to be Tierney Sutton's year. The California-based singer, who has been building her reputation and her musical art for more than a decade, resulting in a series of five albums with her band. She played a full month at the Algonquin Hotel's famed Oak Room in New York in late winter. She ...

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Montreal Jazz Festival 2004 Notebook, Part 1-3

by Ken Franckling
July 9, 2004

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Silver anniversary spectacle In addition to its 150 indoor ticketed concerts over 12 nights, downtown Montreal was bubbling with its usual crowd-pleasing mix of musical on 10 outdoor stages, street performers and people watching. If anything, the fact that it is the festival's 25th year, has intensified the ...

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Buddy Rich Live at the 1982 Montreal Jazz Festival

by John Kelman
July 1, 2004

When one thinks of drummer Buddy Rich what comes to mind, first and foremost, are impressions of a brash personality and an even more outgoing drumming style. And while it is true that the majority of Rich's output with his various big bands falls in the camp of extroversion with bold, bright virtuoso playing, equally impressive ...

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John Geggie/Sunna Gunnlaugs/Justin Haynes Ottawa, Canada May 22, 2004

by John Kelman
June 2, 2004

With a season has seen everything from duets with pianist Marilyn Crispell to trios with saxophonist Mike Murley and drummer Jim Doxas, bassist John Geggie chose, on May 22, 2004, to close off this year’s “No Boundaries” series in a quiet and intimate chamber jazz setting, featuring Icelandic ex-pat, pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs, and Canadian guitarist Justin ...

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Montreal Jazz Festival: As Sterling As Silver

by Ed Hamilton
April 27, 2004

Anniversaries and birthdays are synonymous with the beginnings of wonderful occurrences. The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal--a Sterling Silver conglomerance of Jazz sounds known round the world as the Montreal Jazz Festival, celebrates its 25th birthday. Andre Menard and cofounder-Alain Simard solidified the festival in 1979 organizing a week of various musical encounters. FIJM again, ...

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John Geggie, 'No Boundaries' Series with Mike Murley and Jim Doxas

by John Kelman
April 8, 2004

Ottawa, Canada April 4, 2004 First the bad news. Veteran Ottawa bassist/composer/educator John Geggie, whose ongoing series of musical collaborations called “No Boundaries” has been deservingly successful for its sense of daring and invention, had planned a series of duets with Swedish bass legend Anders Jormin. Unfortunately, at the last minute, Jormin had to ...